One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Your scribe has a host of aviation ties and aviation themed links and today we venture in to the rise and fall of one of the world’s great airlines Ansett Australia and its sister Ansett International.
Wearing a “failed’ airlines cuff links is always a conversation starter and such was the airline that many people all have a story to tell of their experiences over the years. The irony or the catalyst for the collapse lay on the day it closed its doors…..12 September 2001 after 66 years of operations.
Established by Sir Reginald Ansett KBE in 1935, at its peak it ran hundreds of aircraft, employed thousands of staff and had an impressive route map of destinations. At one stage of the airlines life, it was the largest operator of the classic Fokker Friendship aircraft…..a true classic from the golden age of aviation. It is one of the few aircraft that is immortalised on postage stamps!!!!
Some speculate that the airline fell in to decline when the airlines share register was raided by none other than Rupert Murdoch and it was taken out of the hands of aviators and fell in to the hands of speculators….there’s a lesson there!
Ansett’s failing in 2001 was so spectacular that the financial administrators have only recently concluded the asset sales and paid out the long suffering employees their staff entitlements. Best wishes to all that were affected by the collapse.
Today’s links were official Ansett wear for executives and pilots and are plate metal and enamel cuff links with the famous Ansett logo. They are worn with a white cotton Brooks Brothers shirt and a Hermes silk neck tie with airplane motifs.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
Your scribe has a host of aviation ties and aviation themed links and today we venture in to the rise and fall of one of the world’s great airlines Ansett Australia and its sister Ansett International.
Wearing a “failed’ airlines cuff links is always a conversation starter and such was the airline that many people all have a story to tell of their experiences over the years. The irony or the catalyst for the collapse lay on the day it closed its doors…..12 September 2001 after 66 years of operations.
Established by Sir Reginald Ansett KBE in 1935, at its peak it ran hundreds of aircraft, employed thousands of staff and had an impressive route map of destinations. At one stage of the airlines life, it was the largest operator of the classic Fokker Friendship aircraft…..a true classic from the golden age of aviation. It is one of the few aircraft that is immortalised on postage stamps!!!!
Some speculate that the airline fell in to decline when the airlines share register was raided by none other than Rupert Murdoch and it was taken out of the hands of aviators and fell in to the hands of speculators….there’s a lesson there!
Ansett’s failing in 2001 was so spectacular that the financial administrators have only recently concluded the asset sales and paid out the long suffering employees their staff entitlements. Best wishes to all that were affected by the collapse.
Today’s links were official Ansett wear for executives and pilots and are plate metal and enamel cuff links with the famous Ansett logo. They are worn with a white cotton Brooks Brothers shirt and a Hermes silk neck tie with airplane motifs.
Til Later
ONWARD
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